Computer Science by the numbers

Why Computer Science?

The average yearly salary for computer scientists was $118,840 in 2016.

The median annual wage for computer scientists is 66 percent higher than the average wage in the United States.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 70 percent of all newly created jobs across all STEM fields during this decade —across engineering, the physical sciences, the life sciences, and the social sciences—will be in computer science.

Nationally colleges and universities are not graduating enough students to fill jobs available in computer science.